Grrrrr..........looks a bit thuggish. Beady close set-eyes, slightly mashed-in nose, wide jaw on top a no-neck and located underneath the helmet most likely a narrow sloping forehead with hairline immediately above his thick bushy eyebrow(s)

The old Purdue Boilermakers logo was adopted by my high school, The Holt Ironmen, in Holt Alabama, in the 1950s. Our school was located next to a foundry, and boilermakers and foundry workers seemed close enough. I did not even know it was Purdue's logo until years later.

When I was a freshman, Boilermaker Pete had a squarish cap, and a pugnacious, almost pouty expression. I remember him being kidnapped by the Wisconsin cheerleaders one Saturday, and racked up on the goalposts. The Purdue cheerleaders tried the same thing with Bucky, but had trouble lifting him, and the Wisconsin cheerleaders were able to intervene in time.

The current iteration isn't all that different from what I remember seeing introduced later my freshman year. The big technological advance, as far as I remember, was that the new head had moveable eyebrows.

"I remember him being kidnapped by the Wisconsin cheerleaders one Saturday, and racked up on the goalposts. The Purdue cheerleaders tried the same thing with Bucky, but had trouble lifting him, and the Wisconsin cheerleaders were able to intervene in time."

Several years ago at a home Wisconsin game I was at, a Michigan State fan (don't remember why he was on the field, he might have been a cheerleader or trainer) went beserk and started wailing on Bucky for real. He got hauled off to jail. It was really something to watch.